Improvement in medical compounds



e oEeE'H. GOLTRY'CAND FREDERICK W. HOGARTH, or PORT ALLEGHENY,

i i i PENNSYLVANIA.

; IMPROVEMENT IN MEDICAL coMPouNns.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,460, dated May 30, 18 71.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE E. -G()LTRY and FREDERICK W. HOGARTH, of Port Allegheny, McKean county, State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented a new and useful Medical Compound, being the Fluid Extract of Um Urst', of which the following is a specification: Nature cmdObjeot of the Invention. The invention relates to amedical compound made from the plant known as the A'rctostaphylos and mm or bear-berry, and prepared in the manner, of the ingredients, and in the proportionssubstantially as hereinafter set forth. The object of theinvent-iou is to produce a medicine from the ma 1178i and other ingredients used, intended to be of a curative nature when administered in diseases affecting the urinary organs.

General Description.

The invention is prepared of the following ingredients, and in substantially the following manner and proportions: The mm ursi leaves operated upon by the said mechanical action diluted alcohol is slowly introduced until three- (3) quarts of that fluid shall have passed through the mass under pressure. This result is then placed in a water-bath and its volume extract of the we ursi is obtained. \Ve then take'five (5) ounces of buckthorn berries,

(Rhamnus almfolz'usg dried and pulverized, and

mix therewith two (2) quarts of pure water,

which compound is boiled in a covered vessel until the amount'of material is reduced to one (1) quart. The liquor should then be drawn off by filtration or other proper means, and to it should be added one-fifth e) of its volume of alcohol mixed with the decoction Obtained in the above manner from the am arm. This completes the preparation of the invention, and the same is ready for immediate use.

The usual dose of the compound is a teaspoont'ul, or about one-fourth (i) of an ounce, every four hours. 7

Juniper (Juniperus Virginians) berries may be used with the buckthoru berries in the proportion of eight (8) of the former to ten (10) of the latter.

Claims.

"What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The fluid extract of mm arse, prepared of the ingredients and in the proportions substantially as herein set forth.

In testimony that we claim .the foregoing medical compound of fluid extract of am Wed we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 7th day of March, 1871.

GEORGE E. GOLTEY. [L. s:] FREDERICK W. HOGARTH. LL. 8.] Witnesses:

D. It. BENNETT, F; H. ARNOLD. 

